Biology

The surprising role hydrothermal vents play in driving Southern Ocean primary production
Dr. Casey Schine, Middlebury College, Postdoctoral Research Associate

“Using the past to save the present: How do we incorporate historical baselines into conservation?”

In this talk, we explore how different environmental archives, from fossils to ancient Chinese historical documents, have provided crucial new perspectives on how to conserve some of the world’s rarest species, such as the Javan rhino, cao vit gibbon, and Samoan tooth-billed pigeon.

When Evolution is the Solution to Pollution: Repeated adaptation of mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) populations to extreme pollution.

“Mechanisms of preference diversity: From genes by environment to behavior “

Picking a mate is a key biological process across a wide range of species, and animals exhibit great diversity in what traits they use during the mate selection process and what they find attractive. Here, the Westerman lab uses a range of genetic, developmental, and behavioral techniques to uncover mechanisms driving mate preference diversity, using butterflies as a model system.

Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Fall Annual Meeting
Keynote Address: Vermont State Climatologist Lesley Ann Dupigny-Giroux

The fate of mosses under a changing climate: Evolution of stress tolerance in Syntrichia’s rapid radiation

Biology Seminar Series- Class of 88 Speaker: Dr. Jessica Terrill, The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon

Avian diversity changes across the past few thousand years: Evidence from fossils and genomic data

Dr. Erin Eggleston, Assistant Professor of Biology at Middlebury

 

Ecology of the Unseen: Illuminating Microbial Ecological Dynamics

 

Sophia Fatima
“Microbial Mercury Methylation in Englesby Brook and Winooski River, Vermont”.

James Flaumenhaft
“A Small Molecule to Smile About: Identifying SloR-Small Molecule Interactions As Potential Dental Caries Therapeutics”

Grady Welsh
“Moss Mission: A Comprehensive Survey of the Bryophytes of the Altona Flat Rock”

Refreshments served.
Sponsored by the Biology Department with support of Macy Fund

Sophia Giliberto
“Microbial Community Comparison of Homemade and Artisanal Fermented Foods”

Luke Van Horn
“Canids in the Lyme light: The effects of canid predators on Lyme disease ecology”

Refreshments served.
Sponsored by the Biology Department with support of Macy Fund